How to Date men When you Hate men

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Call Number: 818.602 Ro, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Humor / Roberson, Blythe
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	818.602 Ro	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Pittsfield Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Humor / Roberson, Blythe	4-week checkout	Due 04-25-2024
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / Literary Arts / Humor / Roberson, Blythe	4-week checkout	Due 05-11-2024

Crushes -- Flirting -- Dating -- Psychic wounds -- Getting serious -- Breaking up -- Being single -- Making art.
From New Yorker and Onion writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a comedy philosophy book aimed at interrogating what it means to date men within the trappings of modern society. Blythe Roberson's sharp observational humor is met by her open-hearted willingness to revel in the ugliest warts and shimmering highs of choosing to live our lives amongst other humans. She collects her crushes like ill cared-for pets, skewers her own suspect decisions, and assures readers that any date you can mess up, she can top tenfold. And really, was that date even a date in the first place? With sections like Real Interviews With Men About Whether Or Not It Was A Date; Good Flirts That Work; Bad Flirts That Do Not Work; and Definitive Proof That Tom Hanks Is The Villain Of You've Got Mail, How to Date Men When You Hate Men is a one stop shop for dating advice when you love men but don't like them.

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Solid 3.5 submitted by clk.9123 on August 21, 2022, 3:05pm Truthfully, hoped for a different book, and despite enjoying some anecdotes and all of the challenges to the patriarchy, it falls more around a 3.5 for me. I think there was so much opportunity to explore more, and certainly, better, the ways in which being a heterosexual female plus feminist are seemingly contradictions much of the time. She touched on a lot of great points but so much was lost in boring over-analyses of personal experiences that didn’t fully lend to the objective. Additionally, this book is highly millennial and I don’t anticipate generations above mine being into this book or really fully getting it. I fear this won’t stand the test of time, which isn’t all bad as we should have and enjoy pieces relevant to our current culture that wouldn’t transcend time but the potential lost on this one does make me wince.